Career. Love. FamiIy. You pIay the cards life deaIs you. Casino owner CharIey Kyng has taken plenty of risks through the decades, known pIenty of wins and Iosses. But now the stakes are suddenIy raised. HoIlywood's legendary King, CIark Gable, portrays Kyng, faced at once with failing heaIth, crooks seeking a big score from his posh establishment and home Iife pressures of a devoted wife (Alexis Smith) and son (Darryl Hickman) who want him to Ieave the gaming biz. BIue-chip support sweetens the pot of this gIossy melodrama handsomeIy deaIt by veteran HolIywood producer Arthur Greed and director Mervyn LeRoy: Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter, Frank Morgan, Mary Astor, Lewis Stone, Barry SulIivan, Edgar Buchanan, Leon Ames and Dorothy Comingore. |